This Unorthodox Procedure Makes Short People A Foot Taller
Do you wish you were taller? Well there's a surgically procedure you could go through to get taller, but it can be pretty painful... How Much Force Does It Take To ...
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IF ONLY THERE WAS ANOTHER WAY! Whattup shorties, short Jules here for a DNews short. I am five-foot-eight, which is below the average height for an adult American male, roughly five-foot-nine-and-a-half. For our entire lives, we’ve been told that there is nothing we can really do about being short. For most everything else, there is plastic surgery, or medication, or some other solution, while us shorties are stuck with shoe lifts and pinstripes. But what if I told you vertically challenged friends that there is a way to grow taller, even as a fully grown adult. The only catch? Well, you have to break your legs. A medical procedure, called “distraction osteogenesis”, can actually lengthen your bones by a few inches, and was originally developed to treat those with uneven l...
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IF ONLY THERE WAS ANOTHER WAY! Whattup shorties, short Jules here for a DNews short. I am five-foot-eight, which is below the average height for an adult American male, roughly five-foot-nine-and-a-half. For our entire lives, we’ve been told that there is nothing we can really do about being short. For most everything else, there is plastic surgery, or medication, or some other solution, while us shorties are stuck with shoe lifts and pinstripes. But what if I told you vertically challenged friends that there is a way to grow taller, even as a fully grown adult. The only catch? Well, you have to break your legs. A medical procedure, called “distraction osteogenesis”, can actually lengthen your bones by a few inches, and was originally developed to treat those with uneven l...
